Equity and Inclusion in Education: Tools to support education sector planning and evaluation 2008

The IATT on Education in collaboration with the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative, the Global Task Force against Child Labour and the Disabilities Flagship have developed these tools to support governments, their development partners and other stakeholders to address equity and inclusion in education sector plans. They will be piloted at country level in 2009 and may be revised thereafter.

As progress is made towards the Education for All and Millennium Development goals, including universal primary education and gender parity at all levels of education, increasing attention is being given to those children who are still out of school, are particularly hard to reach and are at risk of being excluded, marginalised or otherwise disadvantaged in relation to education. Even when children attend school, they may not complete the full cycle of primary education and may not experience or achieve learning of good quality.

Some groups of children are particularly at risk of not attending or completing school, such as children from poorer families, those in remote rural communities, girls, children infected or affected by HIV and AIDS, children with disabilities, children undertaking paid or domestic labour, children from ethnic or other minority groups and children in countries affected by conflict.

Greater equity and inclusion in education are therefore now a priority in many countries.


To see the tools, click here.